--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB <no_re...@...> wrote:
>
> --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "PaliGap" <compost1uk@> wrote:
> >
> > Just to nitpick:
> >
> > I do not think "Wikipedians are scientifically
> > illiterate". But I do think THIS article started
> > with a howler.
>
> Just to nitpick further :-), since I brought up the
> subject in another thread, what do you think could
> inspire someone to *post* such a howler?
>
> Could it possibly be a commitment to the idea that
> "India is the home of all knowledge," and the place
> were pretty much everything that is of value, spir-
> itually or otherwise, originated?
>
In my understanding, modern physics has found/is about to
find that so called "matter" consists basicly of "nothing".
That idea seems to be expressed for instance in the Rgveda,
like this:
sató bándhum asati nÃr avindan
hRdà pratÃSyA kaváyo manISÃ.
Sages (kavayaH) seeking (pratiiSya)
in [their] heart[s] (hRdi) with wisdom (maniiSaa)
found out ("avindan nir") the bond (bandhum)
of the existent (sataH) in the non-existent (asati).
--Rgveda X 19, 4 (c and d)
Western science needs particle accelerators worth
billions of dollars to prove(?) that simple truth.
IMO, the Rgvedic RSis might originally have been
Siberian shamans, or stuff. So, they gradually moved
southward, ending up to what nowadays is Pakistan
and India. ;D
